Friday, December 21, 2012

I plan to spend my busy holidays doing as much reading as possible. I plan to travel across the galaxy learning the truth about life of Godspeed with Amy and Elder, trying to survive the Vancouver wilderness with Maya and her friends, watching Daimons fight to the death at The Carnival of Souls and joining Wendy as she discovers that she is a changeling who was switched at birth.

It's been three
months since Amy was unplugged. The life she always knew is over. Everywhere she
looks, she sees the walls of the spaceship Godspeed.

But there may
just be hope: Elder has assumed leadership of the ship. He's finally free to act
on his vision--no more Phydus, no more lies.

When Elder learns shocking
news about the ship, he and Amy must race to discover the truth behind life on
Godspeed. They must work together to unlock a mystery that was set in
motion hundreds of years earlier. Their success--or failure--will determine the
fate of the 2,298 passengers who remain aboard Godspeed. But with each
step, the journey becomes more perilous, the ship more chaotic, and love between
them more impossible to fight.

Beth Revis catapulted readers into the far
reaches of space with her New York Times bestselling debut, Across the
Universe. In A Million Suns, Beth deepens the mystery with action,
suspense, romance, and deep philosophical questions. And this time it all builds
to one mind-bending conclusion: THEY HAVE TO GET OFF THIS SHIP.

On the heels of the wildly popular The Gatheringcomes the
second in the "Darkness Rising" YA trilogy from NYT bestselling author
Kelley Armstrong.Maya Delaney's paw-print birthmark is the mark
of what she truly is--a skin-walker. She can run faster, climb higher, and see
better than nearly everyone else. Experiencing intense connections with the
animals that roam the woods outside her home, Maya knows it's only a matter of
time before she's able to Shift and become one of them. And she believes there
may be others in her small town with surprising talents.

Now, Maya and
her friends have been forced to flee from their homes during a forest fire they
suspect was deliberately set. Then they're kidnapped, and after a chilling
helicopter crash, they find themselves in the Vancouver Island wilderness with
nothing but their extraordinary abilities to help them get back
home.

In a city of daimons, rigid class lines separate the powerful from the
power-hungry. And at the heart of The City is the Carnival of Souls, where both
murder and pleasure are offered up for sale. Once in a generation, the carnival
hosts a deadly competition that allows every daimon a chance to join the ruling
elite. Without the competition, Aya and Kaleb would both face bleak futures—if
for different reasons. For each of them, fighting to the death is the only way
to try to live.

All Mallory knows of The City is that her father—and every other witch
there—fled it for a life in exile in the human world. Instead of a typical
teenage life full of friends and maybe even a little romance, Mallory scans
quiet streets for threats, hides herself away, and trains to be lethal. She
knows it's only a matter of time until a daimon finds her and her father, so she
readies herself for the inevitable. While Mallory possesses little knowledge of
The City, every inhabitant of The City knows of her. There are plans for
Mallory, and soon she, too, will be drawn into the decadence and danger that is
the Carnival of Souls.

Amanda Hocking is an indie publishing sensation whose self-published
novels have sold millions of copies all over the world, and Switched is the book
that started the phenomenon. Prepare to be enchanted…

When Wendy Everly was six years old, her mother was convinced she was a
monster and tried to kill her. Eleven years later, Wendy discovers her mother
might have been right. She’s not the person she’s always believed herself to
be, and her whole life begins to unravel—all because of Finn Holmes.

Finn is a mysterious guy who always seems to be watching her. Every
encounter leaves her deeply shaken…though it has more to do with her fierce
attraction to him than she’d ever admit. But it isn’t long before he reveals
the truth: Wendy is a changeling who was switched at birth—and he’s come to
take her home.

Now Wendy’s about to journey to a magical world she never knew existed, one
that’s both beautiful and frightening. And where she must leave her old life
behind to discover who she’s meant to become…